Horrible Histories: Gory Games

Horrible Histories: Gory Games is a children's game show, co-produced by Citrus Television and Lion Television for CBBC, that debuted in 2011. It is a spin-off of hit children's sketch comedy Horrible Histories and is a product of the same creative team.

Horrible Histories: Gory Games
GenreChildren's Game show
Presented byDave Lamb
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series5
No. of episodes66
Production
Running time25 minutes
Production companyCitrus Television and Lion Television
DistributorAll3Media
Release
Original networkCBBC
Picture format16:9
Original release30 May 2011 (2011-05-30) –
26 January 2018 (2018-01-26)
Chronology
Related showsHorrible Histories (2009)
Horrible Histories (2015)
External links
Website

History

The show featured music by Matt Katz and Richie Webb, produced at Noisegate.[1] The gameshow's participants are aged between 8 and 12.[2]

The gameshow was adapted into an iOS/Android app, allowing players to play along with the contestants. It was available at Google Play or the Apple App Store. The premiere app by the creative tea, SyncScreen was in charge of app design and user experience, and they used their proprietary SyncScreen Framework API technology. The app also used Civolution’s SyncNow Automatic Content Recognition, which increased the synchronicity of the experience.[3] It was the "first mainstream "second screen" apps for kids", and was designed to be used by children while they were watching the show.[4]

The app was launched in 2014 when Series 3 (2013) was re-edited under the new format. Series 1 (2011) went the same way in 2016. New episodes were made under the play-along format in Series 4 (2016), but by Series 5 (2018) the app had been removed from the App Store. After Series 5 (2018) completed broadcast, Series 4 (2016) shown again, but was re-edited to remove the play-along function.

Gameplay

Gory Games is co-hosted by comedian Dave Lamb and Rattus Rattus, the rat puppet who also "hosts" the parent series. The show revolves around "horrible facts".[5] Gameplay involves three child contestants (called "Horrible Historians") trying to obtain "Year Spheres" by completing either a historically-themed physical challenge or a quiz. Each Year Sphere contains a year which is either A.D. or B.C.. If it is A.D., the year is added to the player's score at the end of the show; if B.C., it is subtracted from it. The player with the highest overall score after three rounds is the winner.

These Year Sphere's are:

The games are divided into six categories: "Brainy", "Messy", "Scary", "Silly", "Gory" and "Death" (hosted by Death himself). Quiz questions manifest as either multiple-choice or true-or-false questions and may be asked either by Dave, Rattus, a live-action or animated character from that period, or—in Series 3—Death. "Prop questions" are also asked.

Similarly to its parent series, the games are grouped under randomly selected historical eras or civilizations based on Terry Deary's original books. To date the eras used in Gory Games are:

As from series 3, at the end of the show, the two runners up ended up having to go home through the Time Sewer which was a slide leading to a tank of thick brown gunge.The kids were barefoot when they got gunged.

Cast members from the parent show make frequent cameo appearances as the historical questioners, as does Horrible Histories author Terry Deary.[6]

Reception

Julia Raeside of The Guardian commented that the show has "no bleepy, flashy nonsense", and added that it "would have enthralled 20 years ago and is all the better for it."[7]

The Guardian deemed the Gory Games TV Play-along app the 25th best app for kids for 2014, deeming it impressive that the technology that allows at-home children to play along with contestants in real-time also worked with repeats.[4]

Awards and nominations

In 2013, the show was nominated for a Children's BAFTA award in the category of Entertainment.[8][9]

Transmissions
SeriesStart dateEnd dateEpisodes
130 May 20112 August 201113
215 April 20128 July 201213
327 May 20136 August 201315
46 June 201624 June 201615
515 January 201826 January 201810

Episodes

Series 1 (2011)
No. Horrible Historians Winner Air date
1 Lukas, Zoe & TJ TJ 30 May 2011
2 Ashley, Rowan & Zeke Zeke 31 May 2011
3 Jeevan, Kate & Billy Billy 1 June 2011
4 Emily, Ross & India Emily 2 June 2011
5 Joel, Holly & Ayanda Holly 7 June 2011
6 Dionne, Melissa & Lloyd Dionne 14 June 2011
7 Ciorstaidh, Oliver & Hannah Hannah 21 June 2011
8 Joanne, James & Ty Joanne 28 June 2011
9 Jasmine, Greg & Monica Greg 5 July 2011
10 Kelly, Jonah & Zofia Jonah 12 July 2011
11 Erin, David & Rebecca Erin 19 July 2011
12 Mia, Lucas & Emily Lucas 26 July 2011
13 Jack, Maisy & Okechukwu Okechukwu 2 August 2011

Series 2 (2012)
No. Horrible Historians Winner Air date
1 Nehaal, George & Lydia Nehaal 15 April 2012
2 George, Hope & Saqlain George 22 April 2012
3 Lloyd, Hermione & Sam Hermione 29 April 2012
4 Hannah, Noah & Daisy Hannah 6 May 2012
5 Sonnyboy, Carrera & Aaron Sonnyboy 13 May 2012
6 Molly, Georgie & Josh Molly 20 May 2012
7 Thomas, Harriet & Dominic Harriet 27 May 2012
8 Phoebe, Andrew & Maisie Andrew 3 June 2012
9 Christian, Isabel & Harry Isabel 10 June 2012
10 Georgia, Paramvir & Olivia Georgia 17 June 2012
11 Lucy, Matty & Rhyanna Matty 24 June 2012
12 Oliver, Kayley & Omari Omari 1 July 2012
13 September, Sol & Morgan September 8 July 2012

Series 3 (2013)
No. Horrible Historians Winner Air date
1 Maya, Aaron & Olivia Aaron 27 May 2013
2 Rehab, Robbie & Charlotte Robbie 28 May 2013
3 Finn, Ella & Teddy Finn 29 May 2013
4 Ayush, Amy & Gayatri Gayatri 30 May 2013
5 Katie, Christopher & Eloise Christopher 31 May 2013
6 Remy, Mary Kate & Lucas Lucas 4 June 2013
7 Calla, Jay & Ellie Calla 11 June 2013
8 James, Ash & Callum Ash 18 June 2013
9 Aaron, Faye & Daniel Faye 25 June 2013
10 Natalie, Dray & Mimi Dray 2 July 2013
11 Samuel, Leah & Rohan Rohan 9 July 2013
12 Charlotte, Matt & Katya Charlotte 16 July 2013
13 Charlie, Lily & Isaac Isaac 23 July 2013
14 Rex, Rebecca & Kayden Rex 30 July 2013
15 Eden, Kiera & Jacob Jacob 6 August 2013

Series 4 (2016)
No. Horrible Historians Winner Air date
1 Harry, Abi & Aman Abi 6 June 2016
2 Haryan, Kat & Arthur Kat 7 June 2016
3 Georgia, William & Nyobi William 8 June 2016
4 Theo, Yasmin & Max Yasmin 9 June 2016
5 Joel, Anvita & Zachary Joel 10 June 2016
6 Sam, Ellie & Will Ellie 13 June 2016
7 Mery, Haider & Holly Holly 14 June 2016
8 Diya, Santiago & Beth Diya 15 June 2016
9 George, Sofie & Tyrell Sofie 16 June 2016
10 Freya, Sam & Chineme Freya 17 June 2016
11 Bobbie, Ollie & Millie Bobbie 20 June 2016
12 Lewis, Amelie & Oscar Oscar 21 June 2016
13 Sas, Zak & Annabel Annabel 22 June 2016
14 Aaliyah, Freddie & Ellie Freddie 23 June 2016
15 Akai Osei, Karim Zeroual & Isabel Clifton Akai Osei 24 June 2016

Series 5 (2018)
No. Horrible Historians Winner Air date
1 Dan, Eva & Shai Dan 15 January 2018
2 Seb, Brooke & Nathan Seb 16 January 2018
3 Sam, Noah & Chiedza Chiedza 17 January 2018
4 Edward, Inaaya & Jasmine Inaaya 18 January 2018
5 Danyal, Rose & Tia Tia 19 January 2018
6 Ruhama, Ben & Charlotte Ben 22 January 2018
7 Affan, John Oscar & Elisabeth John Oscar 23 January 2018
8 Melissa, Ella & Ashley Melissa 24 January 2018
9 Paris, Keaton & Zainab Keaton 25 January 2018
10 Leon, Ellen & Katherine Leon 26 January 2018

References
  1. "July 7, 2011 Archives". Noisegate Media. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
  2. "CBBC Horrible Histories Gory Games Application - Brynmill Primary School". Swansea Edunet. 19 October 2012. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
  3. "Hands on with Horrible Histories' Gory Games - News". Retrieved 13 September 2016.
  4. Dredge, Stuart (24 December 2014). "The best iPad apps for kids of 2014". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
  5. Preston, John (5 June 2011). "Terry Deary interview". The Telegraph. London.
  6. "Horrible Histories writer Terry Deary to be torchbearer". BBC News. 9 January 2012.
  7. Raeside, Julia (30 May 2011). "Tonight's TV highlights". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 4 May 2012.
  8. "Wolfblood leads 2013 Bafta Children's nominations - CBBC Newsround". 22 October 2013. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
  9. "British Academy Children's Awards nominees revealed". Retrieved 13 September 2016.
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